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What is ecology?
The study of how organisms depend on each other for food.
What is a herbivore?
consumer that eats plants.
What is a biosphere?
Part of the Earth that supports life.
What is a biosphere?
Earth's crust, all the water that covers the Earth, atmosphere the surrounds the Earth
What is an ecosystem?
All of the living and nonliving parts of the environment,
What is a population?
All of the organisms of the same species that live in an area at the same time
What three things make up a biosphere?
ecosystems, population, consumers
What is a consumer?
A consumer gets energy by eating other consumers.
What is a food chain?
a model of the feeding relationship in an ecosystem.
What is a carnivore?
A consumer that eats other animals (only meat).
What is an omnivore?
A consumer that eats plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
consumes and helps break down dead plants or animals and releases nutrients back into the soil.
What is a producer?
organisms that use energy from the sun to create energy rich molecules
Do do most producers contain?
chlorophyll
Why do some produces need chlorophyll?
for photosynthesis
Some producer do not have chlorophyll. They make food by ______________.
chemosynthesis
